Hoop-retainer.



M, GILGER.

HOOP RETAINER.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 25, 1911.

Patented Dec. 26, 1911.

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HOOP-RETAINER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 26, 1911.

Application filed May 25, 1911. Serial No. 629,413.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MORRIS GILGER, a cit-izen of the United States,residing at Green Bay, in the county of Brown and State of Wisconsin,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hoop-Retainers; andI do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description ofthe invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which itappertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to improvements in hoop retainers for buckets,barrels, tubs and analogous containers.

One object of the invention is to provide a hoop retainer of thischaracter which may be readily applied to the hoops of the container andwhich may be taken up or shortened to adjust the hoops when the samehave become loosened from the shrinkage of the container.

Another object of the invention is to provide a combined hoop retainerand bail or handle attaching member whereby a bail or handle may besecurely fastened to the container.

With these and other objects in view, the invention consists of certainnovel features of construction, combination and arrangement of parts aswill'be more fully described hereinafter and afterward specificallyclaimed. v

In the accompanying drawings :Figure 1 is a perspective view of a bucketshowing the invention applied thereto; Fig. 2 is an enlarged sectionalview through the upper portion of the bucket and the combined retainerand handle attaching device; Fig. 3 is a similar view through the lowerportion of the bucket and one of the lower hoop retaining devices; Fig.4 is a perspective view of a tub showing the invention applied thereto;Fig. 5 is a similar view of a barrel showing the application of theinvention to the hoops thereof.

Referring specifically to sthe drawings 1 indicates a strip of metal ofsuitable width and of suflicient length to extend between and connecttwo hoops of the container as shown. The ends of the strip 1 are engagedbeneath the hoops and the projecting portions 2 of said ends bent overand into engagement with the outer sides of the hoops thereby securelyretaining the latter in position on the container.

The strips 1 may vary in length according to the distance between thehoops. Any desired number of strips may be provided and they may bespaced apart and arranged between the hoops of the container in anysuitable manner.

My improved retainers 3 between an up per pair of adj acenthoops, areextended upwardly above the upper hoop or above the top of the containeras shown at 4. The extended upper portion 4: of the re tainer is thenbent outwardly and downwardly upon itself and its end is again in sortedbeneath the hoop. The portion of the end projecting below the hoop isthen bent upwardly into engagement with the outer side of the hoop asshown at 5. In the doubled or folded projecting upper portion 1 of thestrips, are formed bail or handle at taching eyes 6 with which areengaged the bails 7 of the bucket, or handles 8 of the tub as sh own. Inthus constructing and arranging these retainers they serve a doublefunction of holding the hoops in place and providing handle attachingmeans whereby the bails or handles of the container are firmly attachedto the latter.

The strips from which the containers are constructed are preferablyformed of malleable metal and the ends thereof are adapted to bestraightened and rebent to adjust the hoops into closer engagement withthe sides of the container when the latter have shrunk.

From the foregoing description, taken in connection with theaccompanying drawings, the construction and operation of the inventionwill be readily understood without requiring a more extendedexplanation.

Various changes in the form, proportion and the minor details ofconstruction may be resorted to without departing from the principle orsacrificing any of the advantages of this invention as defined in theappended claim.

Having thus described my invention what I claim is The combination witha container of a pair of hoops thereon, and combined hoop retainers andbail attachers, each comprising a strip of metal, the lower end of whichis seated between the container and a lower hoop with its extremityturned outward and upward and bearing on the outside of the hoop, theupper end of the strip being passed between the container and an upperhoop,

turned down and back upon itself and I In testimony whereof I havehereunto set passed under the upper hoop, the extremity my hand inpresence of tWo subscribing of the strip being bent outward under theWitnesses.

hoop and turned upward against the outer MORRIS GILGER. 5 surface of thehoop, the extreme upper fold Witnesses:

of the strip having formed therein eyes for GEORGE FRIs U'E', attachingbails or handles thereto. PETERCHRISTMAN.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G.

